Post 16, Secondary schools

Blackout the Jargon (Festival of Libraries 2024)

15:00 - 17:00 14 June 2024
Although scientists publish their work in academic journals or others to read, these can often be difficult to understand due to the type of language used. Join us for a session of…

Exhibition – Alison Wilding: Sculptor's Drawings

6 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
<Strong>Alison Wilding: Sculptor's Drawings A display of newly acquired works on paper by the British sculptor Alison Wilding. Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays </Strong>…

Exhibition – John Lyons: Carnivalesque

10 May - 25 August 2024
John Lyons: Carnivalesque The spring begins with the first major retrospective exhibition of Caribbean British artist and poet John Lyons. Spanning six decades, the exhibition will…

Exhibition – The ‘Death’ of the Life Room

6 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
The ‘Death’ of the Life Room 6 Jun 2024 – 12 January 2025 *Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays* Set against the backdrop of the 1950s this collection display highlights…

Teenage Kicks: Andrea's story

7 June - 31 August 2024
Teenage Kicks is an exhibition about what life was like for teenage girls in Britain in the 1960s. It is based on research from the Girlhood and Later Life project led by Professor…

Time is Running Out

16 May - 7 July 2024
An inspiring new exhibition from the Institute of Civil Engineers, Time is Running Out is a groundbreaking and inspiring new exhibition at Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement, free with…

Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)

13:00 - 15:00 14 June 2024
Expressing yourself and crafting an object have long been studied and considered a way to relieve stress and emotional turbulence. We are told that “talking helps” and that making “something…

Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)

11:00 - 13:00 15 June 2024
Expressing yourself and crafting an object have long been studied and considered a way to relieve stress and emotional turbulence. We are told that “talking helps” and that making “something…

An Evening with Sarah Perry

18:30 - 20:00 21 June 2024
Celebrate the Summer Solstice with an evening discussing Enlightenment, the spell-binding new novel from renowned author, Sarah Perry. The newest story from award-winning novelist…

The Three Cultures? Alan Garner: Art, Myth, Science

10:30 - 17:30 21 June 2024
Celebrate the Summer Solstice with a day of panels, discussions and workshops celebrating renowned novelist and Cheshire local Alan Garner; one of the most significant and interesting…

Friends of the Whitworth Sunday Concerts

15:00 - 15:45 23 June 2024
Students from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester perform in our South Gallery, overlooking Whitworth Park. Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts…

Summer term Studio Nights

18:00 - 20:00 27 June 2024
Explore the themes, stories of carnival and celebrate the work of John Lyons with artist Luke Adamson for our Summer term Studio Nights here at the Whitworth. Visit the exhibition…

Virtual workshop: A ‘broken system’? Critical perspectives on housing and construction in the UK - The Building Safety Network

10:00 - 12:00 9 July 2024
Addressing a complex issue like building safety requires a multiple perspective approach. Hearing from diverse viewpoints across residents voices, industry and policy makers, this interactive…

Group Actions, Geometry and Cohomology Workshop - 10th-12th July

10 - 12 July 2024
The Department of Mathematics of the University of Manchester will host the workshop “Group actions, geometry and cohomology” which will take place at the Alan Turing Building from…

Summer Science Exhibits on Tour

3 - 4 August 2024
From the Royal Society, explore some of the UK's most exciting scientific work; learn about lab grown muscles, investigate DNA and drive a Lego Mars Rover! Each weekend will feature…

Summer Science Exhibits on Tour

10 - 11 August 2024
From the Royal Society, explore some of the UK's most exciting scientific work; learn about lab grown muscles, investigate DNA and drive a Lego Mars Rover! Each weekend will feature…

Hear me! Exhibition

1 - 31 October 2024
The Hear Me! science/art exhibition about impact of hearing loss, tinnitus and dizziness, which has just been installed at Students Hub in Jean McFarlane building. The exhibition…

Lane Lecture 2024: Delivering Occupational Health Research in Government: an important front line service?

17:00 - 20:00 2 October 2024
HSE has a proud history of undertaking occupational health research, either by funding others or using its in house capability. In this lecture Professor Andrew Curran CBE will review…

Exhibition – Barbara Walker

4 October 2024 - 26 January 2025
<strong>Barbara Walker 4 October 2024 – 26 January 2025 Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays</strong> Our autumn 2024 programme leads with the first-ever survey exhibition…

Manchester Literature Festival 2024: Caroline Lucas

14:30 - 15:45 5 October 2024
‘Engaging, illuminating and ultimately uplifting, Another England opens the path to a renewed country with real reasons to be proud of itself.’ Fintan O’Toole Caroline Lucas, former…

MLF 2024: Jackie Kay: A Life in Poetry and Protest

19:00 - 20:15 5 October 2024
Festival favourite Jackie Kay (Red Dust Road) returns to celebrate her new poetry collection May Day. From Reclaim the Streets to Pride to Greenham Common to Black Lives Matter, Jackie…

Manchester Literature Festival: David Peace at HOME

19:00 - 20:15 6 October 2024
Limbs and hearts may be broken, but the spirit remains. Their message is that the club is not dead. Manchester United lives on. In February 1958, BEA Flight 609 crashed on take-off…

Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum

16:30 - 17:45 6 October 2024
‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.’ In the four decades she’s spent…

MLF 2024: Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick

19:00 - 20:15 8 October 2024
‘Humanise is a masterwork.’ Alain de Botton One of the world’s most prolific designers, Thomas Heatherwick is fighting ‘an epidemic of boringness’ and demands that we put human emotion…

SPACES for young people's wellbeing

17:00 - 18:30 8 October 2024
Join us for an absorbing webinar on creating SPACES (Supporting Participation in Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Sports) to improve young people’s wellbeing. Hear from researchers,…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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